Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II

by Karen Anderson

Wartime Women examines in detail the short-term changes of the war years; the jobs in war plants and support services; the effects of women's earnings on family finances; the response of trade unions. Anderson shows that the seeds of the postwar denial of women's equal participation were present in the ambivalence of wartime attitudes. Crammed with information perceptively interpreted.

Genres: World War II, History, Womens, 20th Century

208 pages, Hardcover

First published April 29, 1981

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[AskHistorians]

Anderson's is the classic account of women on the home front - along with Meyer's book (below) it provides a useful expansion/complication of the image of "rosie the riveter" and similar images.